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X M M I X version 1.1
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by Ti Kan
Xmmix is a sound mixer utility for the X Window System using the
OSF/Motif interface. It requires the "VoxWare" sound driver by
Hannu Savolainen (hannu@voxware.pp.fi), also known as the Linux
sound driver. See notes below about how to get VoxWare.
This version of xmmix has been tested by the author with VoxWare
version 2.4, 2.5, 2.90 and 3.0. It is expected to work with earlier
and future versions.
The OS platforms supported by xmmix is the same as those supported
by VoxWare, which includes several UNIX variants for the Intel x86
PC:
Linux
FreeBSD
NetBSD
SCO UNIX and Open Desktop
UNIX SVR4.2 (Novell UnixWare and others)
It should be fairly easy to port VoxWare to other PC UNIX
platforms.
Likewise, the sound cards supported by xmmix are those that
VoxWare supports. Currently, this includes:
Adlib
Creative Labs Sound Blaster series
Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16
Media Vision Jazz16 based soundcards (ProSonic, 3D etc.)
Gravis UltraSound
Gravis UltraSound MAX
Gravis UltraSound with 16 bit sampling daughter card
Roland MPU-401
Microsoft Windows Sound System
COVOX SoundMaster II
ECHO-PSS (cards based on the PSS architecture by Analog Devices.
Including Orchid SW32, Cardinal DSP16 among others).
MediaTriX AudioTriX Pro
Ensoniq SoundScape
SoundMan Wave
and others
Not all versions of VoxWare supports all of these cards.
Please refer to the VoxWare documentation for further details.
Comments and questions about the VoxWare driver and utilities
should be directed to "hannu@voxware.pp.fi".
This distribution now comes with several 32x32 pixmap files
suitable for use as an xmmix desktop icon:
xmmix.icon - for Novell UnixWare
xmmix_a.px - for SCO Open Desktop (XPM2 format)
xmmix_b.px - for SCO Open Desktop (XPM2 C format)
xmmix.xpm - for other systems that use XPM format
You can use the appropriate icon setup utilities under each of
these environments to create an xmmix icon (with which you can use to
launch xmmix).
Comments, suggestions, and bug reports about xmmix are very welcome!
Write to "ti@amb.org".
If you have a CD-ROM drive, you are invited to try a full-featured
X11/Motif CD Audio Player utility that I wrote. It's called "xmcd"
and supports many UNIX OS platforms and CD-ROM drives. Xmmix and
xmcd makes an ideal pair in your multimedia system. A non-X
command line CD player "cda" is also included in the xmcd package.
See notes below about the anonymous FTP location.
WHERE TO GET XMMIX
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The source code release of xmmix v1.1 is available via
Internet anonymous FTP. Location:
(Instructions)
ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/xmmix/xmmix-1.1.README
(gzip'd tar archive)
ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/xmmix/xmmix-1.1.tar.gz
The package require the "gunzip" (GNU unzip) utility to uncompress.
The source code to gzip/gunzip can be found on various FTP sites
(such as prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu).
WHERE TO GET VOXWARE
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VoxWare files can be obtained via anonymous FTP from the following
directory:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/kernel/sound
WHERE TO GET XMCD
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Xmcd files can be obtained via anonymous FTP from the following
directory:
ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/xmcd
CHANGES SINCE PREVIOUS RELEASE:
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- Modifications to support the VoxWare 3.0 sound driver.
- Xmmix now queries the driver and updates all on-screen controls
each time it receives input focus. This keeps xmmix controls
up-to-date in an environment where multiple mixer applications
are running on a single sound card.
- Added the autoLoadOnStartup and resetOnExit features. See the
man page for info.
- Fixed a bug that caused some of the Rec toggle buttons to be
shown in the wrong state upon startup.
- Modified to print more meaningful debugging output when the
-debug option is used.
- This distribution now comes with several 32x32 pixmap files
suitable for use as an xmmix desktop icon. See the README file
for details.